Process and Equipment Reliability - Barringer and Associates, Inc.

Management Do You Know The
Cost Of Unreliability
• Are you managing to control the cost of
unreliability including failure of the process
• Have you defined a strategy for the system
or do you simply have a collection of tactics
that you think represent a strategy
• Have you communicated your cost of
unreliability with a plan for attacking high
costs money issues—do your engineers know
the cost details to implement the tactics
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The Most Important Tool
• Make Pareto lists based on money. Focusing
on $issues is the most important reliability tool.
• Get engineers to work the $Pareto money list
rather than on love affairs with equipment
• If your Pareto list is based on nose counts of
problems, you’re on the wrong track!
• Ensure engineering/maintenance tactics support
the plant reliability strategy for $issues
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